DON'T MESS with the chief and his friends! Toronto Police Chief Julian
Fantino was pressed into action while walking around the Canadian National
Exhibition, assisting in the arrest of a man yesterday afternoon.

Fantino was touring the Ex grounds when a number of people complained to the
chief and Sgt. Bob Guglick, who is stationed at the police CNE substation, about
a man taking pictures of small kids.

At 3:45 p.m., Fantino and Guglick tried to apprehend the heavy man in sweat
pants. The man tried to take off.

During the struggle the man knocked Guglick to the ground, injuring the
officer's elbow.

Both Fantino and Guglick got their uniforms dirty tussling with the man on
the pavement in the Games Alley at the Ex, trying to capture him.

"He was a very strong man," said Fantino, who suffered a few minor
scrapes.

The chief credited four citizens who swooped in to help contain the battling
man.

"We needed their help," Fantino said.

The chief said people reporting the man's action, then jumping in to help
with the arrest showed what great people live in Toronto. "It just
reinforces my faith in humanity."

Fantino didn't have his gun or defender baton to help subdue the man.
"We had to rely on stealth," the chief joked.